Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yaroslavl. "People have no concept of freedom," he says. "They substitute freedom of action for freedom of thought. They see freedom as license. They don't realize freedom requires self-discipline. They fear that freedom leads to anarchy. They view it as the ability, if one can, to lord it over those weaker than they are." This may explain why, in a survey of almost 2,500 Russians conducted in January by Richard Rose, a professor at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, 77% of respondents answered "order" when asked whether order or democracy was "more important for Russia...
...plaintively asks, "But hey, what did you mean by that?/ Perhaps I'm the tool you take me for,/ Not anything more." In the faux-perky, hit-bound I Can't Love You Anymore, Lovett travels a Georgia road (that's Roberts' home state) and gets the Good Lord's dispensation to give his "angel in distress" a gentle but firm kiss-off. "I don't love you any less/ But I can't love you anymore...
...Lord had not clobbered Franklin for being what he was; he had not handcuffed him. Instead he had set him free. He had taken the very daredevil traits that Franklin thought he had developed to spite him and had turned them to his own good ends. Not only that, but he had arranged for Franklin to achieve the elusive goal of every great man's son: to find his own place in the world. Billy Graham was the world's best preacher, but he had never piloted a six-seater in search of savable souls nor had an evangelically sound...
...harnessed into one of 16 seats facing in all four directions and mounted on the building's ultimate tower. Without warning you are shot up, as if sprung from a killer rubber band, 160 ft. into the sky at 45 m.p.h. and four Gs. And then, dear Lord!, you slam back down at negative gravity, your body pleading to soar through the restraints. Up and down you go a few more times in decreasing extremes. The whole thing, which lasts 31 sec., is a great, bearable kick. It's like experiencing, at warp speed, a manic-depressive attack...
...biography of George VI, and the strongest chapters of this book deal with Elizabeth's first 30 years, where Bradford's sources are strongest. The pages teem with hardy secondary players--the spoiled, resentful Duke of Windsor; the Queen Mother, tough as tacks but effervescently charming; the ambitious, meddling Lord Louis Mountbatten...